food, water, keeping warm in the areas devastated by hurricane sandy. with thousands of people still without power and basic needs, light of people are wondering how they will be able to vote on tuesday. our national correspondent susan candiotti spoke with people in the hard-hit rockaway district in queens, new york. susan, what are people there saying? >> reporter: they are saying that they've got one big mess on their hands. don, take a look at where i am standing. i am not on a street, i am not on a sidewalk, i'm not on the beach. i am standing on a huge chunk of boardwalk. a boardwalk that used to run north and south behind me along the ocean. but now it is broken up by crashing waves from superstorm sandy, and it is on side streets, this being one of them. this boardwalk is now strewn with all kind of debris from the homes that line this -- what was a street. and you've got furniture, you've got washers and dryers, you've got downed power lines, no power. the temperatures are plunging now, and for a lot of people, voting is the last thing on their